[OLPC-devel] Stall of LinuxBIOS included with OS image build 78

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:15:26PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Samat Jain wrote:
> >This ROM starts, but it does not automatically boot from my flash disk. It 
> >puts me into bootmenu; selecting the USB disk option makes it drop to the 
> >shell, where I can go to the flash disk and run olpc-boot.sh manually.
> 
> That's fine, it's old.
> 
> But your monitor works. That's interesting. Something has been broken 
> between then and now.
> 
> That rom was built on aug 8.
> 
> So, something busted recently.
> 
> I was building working roms as late as last week. So something has 
> gotten busted.

It has been identified that the problem comes from FC6 compiled
buildrom. Suspicion is that some part of the toolchain is acting
strange.